Where's Lightfoot?

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About

Where's Lightfoot? is a series of image edits featuring Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot in various photographs as a means of joking about her for closing different public spaces during coronavirus outbreak in March 2020.

Origin

On March 26th, 2020, Facebook ^[1] user daboy1nda posted a series of image edits featuring Lightfoot. They wrote, "Man y’all made us lose our lakefront privileges. Got da Lightfoot OUT HERE out here enforcing😂😂 MORE TO COME! Follow instagram @whereslightfoot." The post received more than 25,000 shares, 6,900 reactions and 6,800 comments in less than one week (shown below).

Spread

That day, @daboy1nda launched the @whereslightfoot Instagram ^[2] account. Within one week, the account amassed more than 36,000 followers.

Shortly after, others began sharing variations of the meme. For example, on March 27th, Instagram^[3] user @fitz1686 shared a version in which Lightfoot appears in a gym (shown below, left).

On March 28th, @whereslightfoot shared a variation featuring Lightfoot dressed as Batman atop of a skyscraper. The post received more than 2,700 likes in less than one week (shown below, center).

Throughout the week, others posted versions of the meme. For example, NBC Sports Bulls Talk posted a variation on Twitter ^[4] (shown below, right).

Several media outlets covered the meme, including Heavy,^[5] Time Out,^[6] NBC,^[7] Chicago Tribune,^[8] BET^[9] and more.